Port Clinton High School - Revista Yearbook (Port Clinton, OH)

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'Jhe Mean I 959 Those who were prrvrleged to be a part of Port Clrnton Hrgh School rn 1959 wrll remember rncrdents whrch were rmpor tant to them rndrvrdually but perhaps there were many rncrdents not known to the student body rn general We rerterate the hrghlrghts of the year at thrs pornt rn an attempt to trrgger vour memory to events closest to you whether or not they are specrfrcally mentroned here It wouldn t seem rrght rf we drdn t go back to school to frnd that some new teachers had been hrred and that the enroll ment had rncreased An all trme hrgh enrollment of 750 students were enrolled We had seven new teachers and also a new assrstant prrncrpal Mr Floyd Heckert who added to the enjoyment of our frrst few weeks of school After the frrst few days the new teachers as well as the old were runnrng therr classes as rf they had always been there We hope all of them wrll stay on and contrnue therr wonderful work It seemed that the school s cheerrng sprrrt had almost dred out at athletrc contests A group of students under the supervrsron of the Student Councrl formed a pep club to help brrng back the old cheerrng sprrrt To belong to thrs club all one had to do was to erther buy or make a large red collar whrch entrtled them to srt rn a specral sectron durrng all the contests The attempts by thrs group of students to brrng about a revrval rn sprrrt were effectrve and we hope the pep club wrll contrnue through the years One student who rndeed deserves credrt for hrs pep and hrs hrgh sprrrt rs Tom Branum he has been an rnsprratron for us all The senror class was very sorry to lose Tom as one of the members of rts class Tom s unfortunate accrdent at Marblehead Quarry kept hrm from jornrng hrs classmates when school opened September 3 The Student Councrl along wrth Mayor George Tewers sponsored a drrve for a tag day for Tom and collected a total of S1068 and a check for thrs amount was presented to hrs parents to help pay hrs medrcal expenses at Unrversrty Hosprtal at Ann Arbor Mrchrgan Tom was unable to graduate wrth those frrends he had gone to school wrth for eleven years but he ll always remarn a member of the class of 1959 rn the hearts of hrs classmates Along wrth the work the Student Councrl drd on these occasrons rt has undertaken to brrng an exchange student to Port Clrnton The Councrl has been workrng very hard to get a club rn our crty to sponsor thrs project Two actrvrtres that are not new to thrs school but that played a brg part rn the school year were the nrght school courses and the magazrne drrve In both cases the people of the communrty were very co operatrve Another actrvrty rn whrch the people of the communrty were very co operatrve was the campargn bythe Musrc Boosters of Port Clrnton for the purchase of new band unrforms Therr efforts were rndeed rewarded and next year should see the band newly attrred Late rn Ianuary our nerghborrng crty Fremont was hrt by a flood The students of our school arded those strrcken famrlres provrdrng them wrth clothrng and any toys they drdn t need The mathematrcs and scrence departments took a great deal of rnterest rn scrence farrs thrs year and as a result they brought much publrcrty to P C H S Many projects were entered rn farrs of local county drstrrct and state levels A great deal of credrt goes to these students who put a lot of trme and work rnto these projects We were greatly honored rn berng able to have the great Rubrnoff as one of our assembly guests thrs year Hrs was a program that wrll long be remembered by all Before he left the assembly he asked that the followrng poem be put rnto thrs year s annual LIFE S CLOCK The clock of lrfe rs wound but once And no man has the power To tell just when the hands wrll stop At late or early hour Ixow rs the only trme we own Love Lrve torl wrth a wrll Do not wart untrl tomorrow For the clock mrght then be strll Anonymous We have not been able to touch upon all the hrghlrghts of the year rn thrs wrrte up as many of them have been mentroned rn other drvrsrons of the REVISTA Therefore for any rtems we have mrssed we hope you wrll read through the many new artrcles added to thrs book 6 , 1 1 , . . ., . . . ' - . , . , . , . .. . . 1 1 1 . . , . 1 . 1 , . . .. . , . 1 1 - ' . - 1 . 1 1 - .. .. . . . , 1 some 1 1 1 0 - 1 . . , 1 1 ,. . 1 1 v 1 o 1 .

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'Jhia Cinoup Compiled 'Ike Book. . . ' 5 Ns 1 X It has often been said that one should never put black on white that which they do not wish to be read This is the aim of this year s Revista Staff The staff has spent much time and effort in producing the book There have been number of changes made which we feel the student body will like and enloy I J AV -wr 1 2 iw? T' . I ll I6 2223 V sam Y T f 1, Il 1 KN f A xt T F- Mvve ' ' ,-- , T A S a .A ,Q . . . . . , . . . . . , G The Revista is welcoming a new addition this year--the Academic Section! This new ' . . , , Ar . Q ' u ' . ' , , , Ar us. Mr Showerman Wrllah Vallance Bonme Mamek Kathi Twynham Virginia Pepon Mary Kramb Vrrgmra Allen Marcxa Vess Sharon Halick Nancy Dreher Sandy Nissen lack Payne Bette Twarek Sue Griffin Rosemarie Kinney Iosre Podgurskr Sponsor Ed IIOI Assistant Ed rtor Business Bus mess Lite ra ry Lrtera ry r r Photo gra phy Phot ogra phy S ports Sports Sa les Sa les Sales section has also provided the staff with a different way of picturing the faculty members These are only two of the several changes which have been made, we hope that you like them The staff this year is comprised of both luniors and seniors We have done this in the hope that each year there will be ci co operative and experienced group eager to put out a fine Revista The Revista Staff would not have been able to put out this book without the long and tireless direction and assistance of Mr Showerman We are sincerely grate ful to him for all the help he has given 5

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